Kiefer Sutherland, who so memorably played Jack Bauer through the entire run of 24, won't be the star of 24: Legacy.

Fox announced Friday at the Television Critics Association event that a pilot for the potential new series will be filmed this winter.

The pilot will feature an all-new cast, but will retain the real-time format, with each episode representing one hour of an always monumentally busy and dangerous day.

Fox chairman and CEO Dana Walden described the series as being “set in the world of 24.”

Asked if any of the original cast of 24 would be involved, Walden said, “Never say never, but right now not.”

The story will focus on a military hero named Eric Carter and the trouble that follows him home to the United States. He asks the CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) for help, not only to save his own life, but also to stop a large-scale terrorist attack on American soil.

Walden said there is a “prominently featured lead (character),” but perhaps not carrying quite as much of the load story-wise as Sutherland's Jack Bauer did. Walden added that there have been conversations about casting, but “the pilot just got ordered, we're not out to an actor yet.”

In an interview with Postmedia Network last summer, Sutherland called Bauer “a character I really love playing, so the idea that there may be another opportunity to play him again someday is always kind of comforting to me.” But in this instance, at least, fans of 24 will have to get used to new people in the leading roles.

Other announcements made by Fox on Friday:

* Empire has been renewed for a third season.

* Scream Queens has been renewed for a second season.

* Prison Break officially is returning as an event series, with Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell reprising their roles.

* Trisha Yearwood will play Mary in The Passion, with Prince Royce playing Peter.

* Tim Curry will be part of the TV version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show as the Criminologist Narrator.

Fox announces '24: Legacy' without Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer

Kiefer Sutherland, who so memorably played Jack Bauer through the entire run of 24, won't be the star of 24: Legacy.

Fox announced Friday at the Television Critics Association event that a pilot for the potential new series will be filmed this winter.

The pilot will feature an all-new cast, but will retain the real-time format, with each episode representing one hour of an always monumentally busy and dangerous day.

Fox chairman and CEO Dana Walden described the series as being “set in the world of 24.”

Asked if any of the original cast of 24 would be involved, Walden said, “Never say never, but right now not.”

The story will focus on a military hero named Eric Carter and the trouble that follows him home to the United States. He asks the CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) for help, not only to save his own life, but also to stop a large-scale terrorist attack on American soil.